RT @GoodGermanWords: #Götterdämmerung or "Dawn-Of-The-Gods" = End Times
#Göttergatte or "Husband-Of-The-Gods" = Husband (used ironically…
RT @Autorwesen: *Bruce Banner voice* I‘m on a planet that is designed to stress me out
Wär ja schon froh wenn Fußgänger*innen das bei reinen Radwegen machen würden https://t.co/88B2ADSGF5
RT @elhotzo: warum kosten vegane Kosmetikartikel mehr als normale "ja Bruder ich habs grad so hinbekommen dass wir da keine Schlachtabfälle…
ojahnn just wrote the worst string reversing function pic.twitter.com/9PZXn1CFFc
RT @johnmyleswhite: If you care about climate change, I highly recommend caring about the performance of computer programs. If computer har…
Vor meinem geistigen Auge jedes Mal eine dreistöckige Seminarhalle pic.twitter.com/Ct3XG8UuTv
HarryGiles my favourite passive-aggressive move is putting "if it's urgent, feel free to call" in my out-of-office email and not including my phone number.
RT @JelteWicherts: Largest experiment of stereotype threat in high schools ever (N=2064) shows no effect of gender stereotypes on math perf…
RT @QuadratPi: Woa, wie ich das Lernen auf Klausuren mag. Vom ganzen Kurs kommen Fragen in die Gruppe, vulgo an mich, sodass ich eigentlich…
rynchantress OH: "I regret to inform you that that's a load-bearing yak you're trying to shave."
Momentary cold sweat on encountering what I thought was an endnote reference. Great relief as it turned out to be an exponent.
RT @oliviasolon: The tech industry's conflation of "want" with "are more likely to click on" is the root of so many of its problems https:/…
Grumpfdalm TIL: Die Steigerung von "Hummeln im Hintern" ist "Hunnen im Hintern"
RT @complingy: Revised my #NLProc course lecture that gives a 75 min. overview of the field of linguistics and some basic concepts. Slides:…
GoodGermanWords #Durchaus
Literal: "Throughout"
Actual: "Absolutely"
#GoodGermanWords
#Good #German #Words pic.twitter.com/oprHlBcvS2
ojahnn @there_are_two_ @tschfflr @shravanvasishth good points! I did have my students fill out a feedback form after the first third of the semester. Next time I'll be sure to include parts about what the students can do to improve their experience in the class, that sounds really useful.
RT @dieg0: Drängeln mit Dauerbeschallung über 15 min lang. Darauf angesprochen machte @PolizeiSachsen deutlich, dass sie damit weitermacht,…
Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals | Martin Lukacs https://t.co/OluWPUAQIS
"German pudding is the sauce you get with British pudding."
nlpado Here we are working on character embedding and not even character encoding is properly solved. pic.twitter.com/XlNLyoqSU4
kevinrphd 1/ One of the most shocking things that you learn as a grad student is that faculty are not trained to be mentors and they are not assessed for how good/bad they are, as mentors.
ojahnn @tschfflr @shravanvasishth I asked whether there was any way I could influence the questions on the form, and was told no. So now I get evaluated together with the heater in our room that was broken for 4 months. Would have loved some more interesting, subject-specific prompts.
RT @zehavoc: "the paper is well written but the question it addresses doesn't interest anyone anymore", Can't believe people can be so mean…
RT @AliceAvizandum: I think the process of seeing your children irreparably becoming someone else is sometimes called parenting https://t.c…
RT @flowingdata: Closeness throughout various relationships illustrated with a couple of lines https://t.co/i2dH0SbC3d https://t.co/hHDL7Zk…
‹ Ajoutons que, contrairement à ce qui prévaut dans les esprits français, être élu «Anglicisme de l'année» n'est pas un déshonneur en Allemagne, bien au contraire. › https://t.co/bIwl9uW2KW
Fact: if your password contains a Greek letter, it is still secure even if it only has three characters and you say it out loud in front of everyone. #StarTrek
RT @GoogleAI: Introducing Transformer-XL, a novel architecture that enables natural language understanding beyond a fixed-length context. Y…
phonotactless ok so if your go-to phrase was 'christ on a bike' and you wanted to intensify it, would you go for 'christ on a unicycle' (less wheels, more intense activity) or 'christ on a trike' (more wheels, less intense activity)?
RT @drguidoknapp: 1850: Hermann Melvilles Verleger findet "Moby Dick" schon recht "fesselnd", hat aber noch Änderungsvorschläge, um die Ver…
RT @honnibal: @deliprao Preliminary results for "spacy pretrain" : https://t.co/7mQd1rrKX6
Pretraining used about 10billion words and $25 o…
RT @Queen_Europe: She’s not really going back to Brussels with a strong and decisive negotiating mandate if you’ve already said you might n…
RT @hllizi: Man ist ja schon froh, wenn's keine Polizisten waren. https://t.co/ZbUdDsniN7
"Contrary to what I have skipped, ..."
RT @zehavoc: I know some people will call me juvenile but I've never been so happy to write somewhere the "Wall Street Journal portion of t…
RT @CodepointsNet: @lmichelbacher Sorry, I’m not a Mac user. This answer suggests however, that macOS uses UTF-16 and allows you to input a…
RT @berndulrich: Nur weil ich die #CSU so mag, hier ein kleine Warnung: Nachdem der Versuch dramatisch gescheitert ist, die #AfD beim Thema…
RT @paniq: 1998: this beat kicks ass
2018: this beat slaps
2038: this beat admonishes
Wenn wir Esther nicht hätten, müssten wir sie uns erfinden https://t.co/HVebt9MMBo
*findet* pic.twitter.com/kClgsOSuJY
*googelt ofen sellerie rezepte*
RT @Tagesspiegel: Nicer Zug oder böses Framing? Das Wort #Gendersternchen ist als Anglizismus des Jahres ausgezeichnet worden. Auch alle we…
"the formalization trap: the desire to nail down a formal specification that can be then optimized. This is a trap because the nature of the formal specification can be contested and evolve from context to context" https://t.co/8aNKv0UgDg #algorithmicfairness
RT @ojahnn: Young Aeon https://t.co/8sZQq8FJF0
RT @ojahnn: MC four and a half dollars https://t.co/PSMT6jFj3V
there_are_two_ So many of the unwritten rules of academia assume that all participants are members of the landed gentry doing a bit of intellectual work in their leisure time, free to travel as they like and able to retreat to the country estate when research funding is lean. It's elitist AF.
RT @there_are_two_: I know many senior academics who *expect* junior researchers to move multiple times in their careers, and don’t give a…
RT @alBazo: Seminar-Tipp fürs Sommersemester: "Abriss Gebäude alte Biologie" https://t.co/6dhQ1d0AXu
RT @zeitonline: Natürlich haben auch Querschnittgelähmte Freude am Sex. Doch es ist ein Tabu. Maria-Cristina Hallwachs bricht es. #Sprechen…
NeinQuarterly The Age of Mechanical Negation. pic.twitter.com/1SK0WqW1Yi
tallinzen If you ever need to have an LSTM diagram in a LaTeX document, may I suggest you steal (with credit!) this Tikz diagram from Luzi Sennhauser's paper on LSTMs' ability to learn learning Dyck languages arxiv.org/abs/1811.02611 pic.twitter.com/mPKIjfbnpr
RT @Schplock: Studi entschuldigt sich für schlechte Anwesenheitsmoral in der VL, das sei auf die Prüfungsordnung zurückzuführen. Was aber,…
RT @zeitonline: Es gibt bereits ein #Tempolimit. Und das stellt sich regelmäßig von allein ein: Stop-and-go, maximal 10 km/h. Je mehr Mobil…
jojus10 @danjus10 RT @ipcress: My son asked me to explain #Brexit...told him to imagine if he & 27 classmates pooled their Lego & built for years. Then one day, one of them wants to leave & would like their Lego back. The blue ones. He immediately grasped how complicated that would be.
RT @hllizi: Astrein begründet. https://t.co/wtCUhoiMJo
KateAronoff Neoliberalism rots people's brains into thinking climate policy means sacrificing something. If we do it right climate policy will mean most everyone gets luxurious public goods & a better quality of life as billionaires become millionaires and we shutter the fossil fuel industry
hartmast #ChooseYourOwnAdventure seems to be quite popular again: Books where you have to skim back and forth to read on. In academia that's called #endnotes.
RT @EnglishGibson: Me until not so long ago:
“2002 is this side of the year 2000 and therefore contemporary.”
Me since somewhat more recen…
RT @TacoCohen: In deep learning, it is acceptable to add an inductive bias to your model, but only if you don't understand why it works. Un…
Bevor die FDP, – Vom Fachmann für Kenner https://t.co/Nutg0MILlG
RT @PGexplaining: Und, was macht dein Sohn gerade?«
»Musterprozesse zur Einschränkung von Frauenrechten führen, er hat sich ja zum 18. die…
German face pic.twitter.com/vRWdfymwi3
simongerman600 Map shows the overnight trains in Europe in 2018. I love travelling by overnight train across Europe. Have dinner, go to bed, arrive in the city center of another metropolis. Pretty great stuff. Source: buff.ly/2WgYdcn pic.twitter.com/ck49uW7P4h
RT @Vilinthril: Hab mich im @Techniktagebuch-Redaktionschat zu ein bisschen Technik-Schmählyrik hinreißen lassen. https://t.co/mkWfkyrthR
bengoldacre ..this is what it was like to read features articles and news before the internet. "Here is some bizarre information. I decide how much you get to read on the topic. I am the beginning and end of your factual intake. Goodbye." ...
RT @isoglosse: @EnglishGibson The earliest reports about this phenomenon I am aware of are from the mid-1980s (see Fónagy 2006 👇). It has i…
RT @PerryFellow: Andy, it’s clear she wants to kil martin https://t.co/zJHWqCbVqY
RT @EnglishGibson: That thing in spoken French when a sentence ends on a front vowel and is sustained by a long /h/*, e.g.:
“Il n’a pas ré…
rcbregman Inequality is rising and rising and almost nobody in Davos was talking about the most obvious and effective solution: TAXES. Felt like I was at a firefighters conference where no one was allowed to use the word 'WATER'. pic.twitter.com/l3BJ6ew0mT
RT @texttheater: "Du hast ein großes Verhältnis von Selbstsicherheit zu Intelligenz." - "Danke!"
dat kitchen <3 https://t.co/qsZgmr9frC
RT @berndulrich: Nein, ich traue jedem und jeder zu, eine Politik zu wählen, die gesetzliche ökologische Maßnahmen ergreift, für die man se…
"Jene aber, welche von seiner Anbetungswürdigkeit zu überzeugen Gott im Laufe ihres Lebens nicht gelungen ist, sollen ewige Höllenstrafen leiden, weil isso."
Who called it "The Disaster Artist" and not "Inside The Room"
RT @hllizi: Voller Einsatz trotz verlegter Flügelschuhe https://t.co/1jBfA0g2NC
RT @StefanLeifert: Die Teilnehmer eines Panels zum Klimawandel werden gefragt, wie die Generation in 50 Jahren wohl über die heutige Weltel…
ojahnn They asked me to visualize my achievements so far pic.twitter.com/UZNkluaNIl
When you want a tiling window manager *and* GNOME panels: https://t.co/skKlZbdRg2
RT @cdutilhnovaes: Profile of the brave @davidmirandario, who will take up the place of J. Wyllys in the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies. He…
AllThingsLing Semantics and the meaning of life tmblr.co/ZuWOEv2fmobbC
🤔 ← my other spirit emoji
Sciurus opera appropinquat
EnglishGibson I put the Menschen in Mentions.
"This band is going down like a limp biscuit." #epicquotes #fact
RT @derloeffelbein: ich: na wie gehts
bon jovi: my heart is like an open highway
ich: das klingt ungesund du solltest zum arzt
bon jovi: li…
lynneguist We had to have'em 3x transcribed for accuracy. And so I tire of being told that starting utterances with 'so' is 'distracting'. They're distracting b/c there's a current fad for pointing out that 'so' is distracting. 2/
lynneguist When I was a student, we recorded an entire term's seminars & had them transcribed so we could study our discourse markers. Even tho the experienced transcriber was instructed not to skip the DMs, she did all the time b/c she didn't consciously hear them. 1/
RT @_shrdlu_: I'm really unhappy about how the BERT authors decided to flaunt double-blind peer review. So, I wrote a blog post about it.…
"To my mind, discouraging footnotes is as peculiar as discouraging hyperlinks, section headers, appendices, bulleted lists, tables, captions, or italics. These mechanisms were invented to keep text organized and readable." In Defense of Footnotes https://t.co/79WgRr6Ver
RT @UnderpantsAnd: Another Art Club with @PerryFellow ✏️✏️ https://t.co/gZBDepubaK
RT @TiniDo: Wenn man so am Neckar entlang durch Kilometer an Kilometer Daimler County wandert, kann man sich gar nicht vorstellen, dass die…
RT @TiniDo: Interessant ist ja, welchen Leuten ihre Lebensumstände so 'naturwüchsig' vorkommen, dass sie offenbar noch nicht mal ohne Panik…
RT @bomelino: ich richte grad grüße aus und dann sagt der "grüße zurück" meine fresse redet doch bitte direkt miteinander es gibt zahlreich…
Wort des Tages: Donauwelle-Puddingteilchen-Dualismus https://t.co/qpa8EYXFlL
Heute nur tiefe Töne!
RT @b0rk: ssh tips https://t.co/iLvKv1vdZg
Oh, es ist ja noch heute.
Internet Archive xkcd.com/2102/
meltomene I booked a seat in the quiet zone of this ICE train and the conductor just openly reprimanded a woman loudly talking on the phone. This might be the highlight of my entire trip.
Einmal hat mir ein Luxemburger Luxemburg gezeigt (am Vormittag die Stadt und am Nachmittag den Rest des Landes).
refikanadol Dear friends, we are deeply exploring photographic memories with machine intelligence. We are constantly training a GAN algorithm with hand picked ~2 millilons architecture photography datasets to create new machine hallucination data sculptures. pic.twitter.com/1buO3SSF8M
Verleser: "dreijährigen" https://t.co/8DHZJi4pF7
"Eine Amtsführung hat auch geschlechtsneutrale Komponenten."
"Für einen Mann ist es überhaupt kein Problem, hundert Tage hintereinander einen dunkelblauen Anzug zu tragen, aber trage ich innerhalb von zwei Wochen viermal den gleichen Blazer, dann erzeugt das Bürgerpost."
<3 https://t.co/jj5luFbgqj
RT @kathrinpassig: @annanasskeks Wenn ich an die Playlistvergleichsoptionen von https://t.co/ThUjOcOV8u zurückdenke, würde das zu sehr viel…
RT @GoodGermanWords: #Debating with #Germans
---
#Einräumen - "Tidy away" = Concede
#Auspacken - "Unpack" = Tell secrets
#Wegstecken - "Put…
annanasskeks Idee:
Dating App, die die Musikbibliotheken von beiden durchsucht, eine Playlist aus den Gemeinsamkeiten macht und beim ersten Date spielt.
Das Date darf nur so lange dauern wie die Playlist.
RT @ojahnn: The tagging of some of these Threepenny Opera recordings on google music sucks bassatles. #schlubchoral #wiemansichbettersolieg…
zeitonline Unsterblichkeit? Kein Problem, man muss nur rechtzeitig die Ersatzteile austauschen, sagt #aubreydegrey. bit.ly/2DuUkt3 #Archiv
Tired: vegetable, animal, or mineral?
Wired: organization, location, facility, or artifact?
"Lasst den Menschen doch ihre Hölle!" (Papst Knut I.)
@Vilinthril Ah, ich ahne pic.twitter.com/5Kw9oZUiAu
@Vilinthril Man sollte die *Anzahl* der Radwege angeben, dann kommen Städte mit vielen kurzen random Radweglücken besonders gut weg!!1
Aber im Ernst, wie wurde denn hier gelogen?
RT @Grumpfdalm: Geschäftsidee: Umverpacktladen, in dem man sich die losen Lebensmittel aus dem Unverpacktladen in bequeme Plastikbehälter e…
The repetitive use of the past continuous tense is especially familiar to me from commit messages. E.g., "Bugfix: TNS-OP nodes were being generated twice"
"I asked the printer to print five copies, and it printed them double-sided, on two and a half sheets. So for practical purposes, it's three copies." #OH
@maw You're looking for segmentation into grapheme clusters (unicode.org/reports/tr29/). AFAIK, Swift and Perl 6 support that out of the box, not sure about .NET.
Grumpfdalm multi purr pose device pic.twitter.com/dUk9QtYcpA
RT @hllizi: Krieg uld Frieden https://t.co/hD0Eg1mwVA
@CodepointsNet The term is "grapheme clusters", right? unicode.org/reports/tr29/ AFAIK some programming languages have native support for it (e.g., Swift, Perl 6), but others deliberately don't (e.g., Rust) because the rules are complex and may change from Unicode release to release.
ojahnn Thought I had a meeting involving the Problematic Postdoc today, but my Protective Professor changed the schedule - I'm glad I'm under her Patronage. Although I specifically brought the Happy Socks I was given by a Pleasant Postdoc, to give me some extra Powerful Protection. what
RT @perseveresther: Beware of underinteraction: / Please be heard, not merely seen! / Words (which foster my attraction) / from you are few…
RT @spinfocl: Eine Abstimmung zum sofortigen Wiedereintritt nach dem #Brexit würde wirklich ein paar Legitimationsprobleme umgehen. Warum i…
what tense is that pic.twitter.com/iWFfYyEWEc
barbara_plank We have a 2 year postdoc opening @ITUkbh on transfer learning (MTL, cross-lingual learning, domain adaptation) for Natural Language Processing w/ @zeljkoagic: goo.gl/qCsn8k - Please contact us if interested and spread the word! #NLProc
RT @KnEzmom: #phdadvice USE 🎤MICS🎤 EVERY TIME YOU PRESENT
Never say 🚫”I don’t need a 🎤, I’m loud enough”🚫 Talking loud emphasizes vowels,…
RT @AdamCSchembri: I'm a #signlanguage linguist. You know me from my greatest hits, including 'ah, no, sign language is not universal', 'no…
RT @vagina_museum: that's their answer to everything https://t.co/tREwBpQe7Z
RT @vagina_museum: The pattern has arrived! It costs only £3 (the price of a coffee!) and all the profits goes to supporting building the w…
RT @pfadintegral: „Wir haben Teil drei ausgelassen, so hatten wir mehr Zeit für Teil eins und zwei“ - ein Framing für Workshopzusammenfassu…
GoodGermanWords #MitgehenLassen
I love this euphemism for shoplifting. It's so very detached. In Germany, the goods basically steal themselves.
"When Udo worked at Karstadt, at the end of every shift, he let a three-pack of Maxell XLII 90s come with."
#GoodGermanWords
#Good #German #Words pic.twitter.com/uIH8eqLzDr
4 of 5 stars to Das Millenial-Manifest by Bianca Jankovska https://t.co/A5cnYOR6kV
RT @timpritlove: Ich brech zusammen: als "Alois Moosbrecher" von der "Aktionsgemeinschaft der Freunde der Diktatur" (AfD!) zeigt Didi Halle…
RT @haekelschwein: „Ich HELFE ja im Haushalt.“ – „Hilfst du deiner Frau auch beim Sex oder macht ihr den gemeinsam?“
RT @ojahnn: I did in fact do another 80% on Monday. The paper is now pre-submitted, so I have another couple of days to take care of the re…
HPS_Vanessa 'The pope', or rather the traditional Catholic church's doctrine did cone in to it, but only against a much broader cultural background that had strong opinions about what women's bodies were for & his they should 'perform'. Menstruation was central.
RT @MelissaCole: Professor Guillebaud added: “How could it be that for 60 years, we have been taking the pill in a sub-optimal way because…
RT @hllizi: "zugegangen" LOL.
Kann ich so schreiben, ohne zu wissen, was er gesagt hat, und Recht werde ich haben.
Ist mir klar, daß mich…
johncarlosbaez Leibniz had the opposite view, saying
"I am so in favor of actual infinity."
He sounds like a Valley girl in this translation. pic.twitter.com/orMS6HNeMS
johncarlosbaez Gauss wrote:
"I protest against the use of infinite magnitude as something completed, which is never permissible in mathematics. Infinity is merely a way of speaking, the true meaning being a limit..." pic.twitter.com/meCKJYxfO3
Bloodyromcom Woman yells "Aber bitte ohne Salat!" as man heads to buy kebabs and I think I've just found inspiration for a chart-topping Schlager.
Habe Vampirgeschichte gelesen und ihr solltet das auch 🔥💀🦇👻🏳️🌈😈☕❄️⚔️💯 https://t.co/4KtCoG4vx9
RT @EnglishGibson: In a language with no expression for “Guten Appetit” you can forget about expressing “Guten Appetit zu Hause“ to people…
RT @EaterNY: A woman read 20,000 Yelp reviews as part of her master’s studies. Her finding? Reviewers’ obsession with "authenticity" is whi…
RT @Peacharu_: Turns out getting pissed off at inanimate objects refusing to work properly is a feeling that extends into the animal kingdo…
RT @FlorianGallwitz: Die allgemeine Überraschung hat wohl auch mit dem Mythos von den "selbstlernenden Systemen" zu tun. Da ist immer ganz…
RT @emilymbender: @microth It seems to me it’s just as like to be enabling the bad habit, by aligning a post-deadline crash with a weekend…
ch000ch i never wear red underwear in case there's a bull nearby wearing x-ray glasses
GriefBison Not just ham, BLACK FOREST ham. That exotic pigmeat on your Subway sandwich had something done to it in Germany's darkest wilderness.
RT @haldaume3: Some of us generally think of stereotypes and other biases as undesirable in NLP systems....
We also generally think of com…
RT @Senficon: BREAKING: Council has failed to find an agreement on its #copyright position today. This doesn’t mean that #Article11 and #Ar…
@microth Just pretend the deadline is Friday
ojahnn I made the most promising breakthrough today after 5pm. This margin is too small to contain it but let me just say it involves dotted lines #phdchat
RT @NemaVeze: After you all participated in this poll, I gave a similar one to my students. Get ready for some #pairedtexts. 1/6 https://t.…
RT @barbcore: Marie Condo: „What‘s this?“
Me: „A boomerang.“
Marie Condo: „Does it spark joy?“
Me: „No.“
Marie Condo: „Throw it away.“
Me:…
@DiagnosticChick Nice garden path sentence! https://t.co/fOJtFmCk7j
DiagnosticChick i think most non-academics underestimate how much research projects are driven by sheer annoyance with how wrong everybody else is
VerbingNouns Precarity isn't just about the mental health and stability of the precarious. It's about making science and scholarship *better*. How can we contribute and push the field forward when we're locked out of these opportunities?
RobDrummond Young people - If you need linguistic ammunition against an older person who criticizes your 'overuse' of 'meaningless' *like*, then simply start counting their own use of *kind of*, *basically*, or *obviously*.
RT @uerdinger: idee:
züge dünner und länger machen so dass niemand mehr neben irgendwem sitzen muss
In Cinemas on Now
War korrekt übersetzt! pic.twitter.com/2j9XhvqLHJ
RT @zeitonline: Viele Unternehmen fürchten, in Zeiten des Fachkräftemangels für hochkarätige Bewerber nicht mehr attraktiv zu sein, wenn si…
RT @lingulate: brief demo that what get called "pronouns" are syntactically different—adjectives occur before personal pronouns, after inde…
DRMacIver "Pandas is what happened when someone concluded that the problem with Python was that it wasn't enough like R, so built an R clone on top of numpy, the library that was written when someone concluded that the problem with Python was that it wasn't enough like matlab."
RT @ojahnn: 🚨 Attention computational linguists: If you are employed *outside academia* right now and would be willing and able to come to…
RT @zeitonline: Erstmals veröffentlichen Forscher einen Speiseplan, der Menschen und Umwelt gemeinsam schützen will. Er enthält: viel Gemüs…
RT @asallime: "...most white people continue to conceptualize racism as isolated and individual acts of intentional meanness." https://t.co…
RT @zeitweise: :) 😀 #10yearchallenge
RT @zeitonline: Nennen wir sie Brexzentriker: Seltsame Geschöpfe wie Boris Johnson und Jacob Rees-Mogg, Parodien ihrer selbst, stilisieren…
RT @zeitweise: Suche den Namen eines Artsy-Computerspiels von vor ein paar Jahren: Man spielt den Tagesablauf einer alte Dame, der das Lebe…
RT @kamaubobb: got pulled over by the police today....
https://t.co/6CnpybYVB5
What's this about @code preserving unsaved changes across restarts, then just overwriting changes made by other programs on save? #wtf
FizzBuzz pic.twitter.com/YCkqCqvvvQ
Theophite throw away whichever data points don't spark joy
Missal of Silos xkcd.com/2099/
RT @perseveresther: ☝ Habseligkeiten sind nicht immer Brauchseligkeiten ❗
@jorges @RichardDawkins @Ayaan Not always
@RichardDawkins @jorges @Ayaan I don't think they are in competition with each other. More of one does not mean less of the other.
Wort des Tages: Raffhilfe
Ich bin sehr textbasiert.
tschfflr In my last class, my students asked me whether the deep learning wave in computational linguistics will ever abate and whether CL conferences will be distinguishable from general ML venues again when they're ready to publish. #thekidsareallright
miriamkp Curious: What do you do when a couple of students dominate class discussion? Talk to them one-on-one? Something else? (NOT an issue with my current students; just curious!)
fantasai Getting confused bug reports about unicode-bidi...
1. If you can figure out the language, use dir=rtl/dir=ltr.
2. If you can't, use dir=auto. Beware it's pretty dumb.
3. Never use CSS direction or unicode-bidi properties to control text. NEVER. Only use the HTML dir attribute.
RT @dlfnova: !!!!KORREKTUR!!!!
Es gibt keine Zombierobbe in der Ostsee!
Wir wiederholen:
Es gibt KEINE Zombierobbe in der Ostsee! https://…
saladinahmed ok who let the octopus write its own wikipedia entry pic.twitter.com/8mq1Ct46FR
perseveresther isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the jerk and how we have come to be shouted at by him,
Starfleet's legal system is sooo weird #TNG_S02E09
eucopresident If a deal is impossible, and no one wants no deal, then who will finally have the courage to say what the only positive solution is?
RT @wellformedness: Conlangs have an opportunity cost, I guess you could say. https://t.co/PPVBc68LMn
For those moments of the day when one despairs of one’s work, luckily there are reviewing assignments, and other people’s work to criticize instead.
RT @auract: next thing you know it's gonna move https://t.co/pCESLvsg9D
#Fakt: Die Picard-Serie wird "Die Picards" heißen und in Picards Wohnzimmer spielen. Er hat eine sarkastische Frau und ein altkluges Kind und es gibt Lacher vom Band.
RT @gneubig: 2019 edition of CMU "Neural Networks for NLP" is starting tomorrow! We'll post slides/lecture videos, feel free to follow alon…
RT @kareem_carr: Consider this. Bad causal inference is both ubiquitous, and physically, psychologically and financially deleterious to wom…
RT @zirkuspony: Ich weiß gar nicht was ich am neuen Fitnessstudio schlimmer finde: dass es überall nach Molecule 01 riecht, alle aussehen w…
alienelf Hey ML researchers. How do you stay focused?
I spend more time getting distracted by new research & how to incorporate it into my work, than actually making progress. As if I'm continuously searching for a better idea than the one I'm busy working on.
#DeepLearning #Research
RT @latentexistence: Locations given for IP addresses are a dangerous fiction https://t.co/nGAZ4KLiCs
ajmooch The Count of Monte Carlo: a wrongly imprisoned man sets to exacting elaborate revenge on random people, expecting that he'll eventually get the right people if he does so for long enough.
RT @skglas: Lieblings-Radio-Werbespot (Radiowerbung für Radiowerbung) nach dem Muster einer missglückten Manual- Übersetzung -- "Wir reden…
*schläft ein Lied in allen Dingen*
"Die Menschen, denen Marie Kondo so nett auf Netflix hilft, sind nicht einmal klassische Kaufsüchtige. Sie sind vom ganz normalen Besitzstand des westlichen Mittelstands überfordert." https://t.co/sJoyz39WO6
5% done with The Confusion, by Neal Stephenson: "He wanted her for what lay at either en... https://t.co/XwcJ5JDavx
sistersome this show is good pic.twitter.com/ufY5IRY5NJ
jamesdotcuff :(){:|:&};:
#unixinpictures pic.twitter.com/ZItgnnhv2s
jamesdotcuff sudo apt-get install libboost-all-dev
#unixinpictures pic.twitter.com/XISLikuEj3
RT @Schplock: Ich habe jetzt lärmreduzierende Kopfhörer, aber statt dass mich das gelassener machen würde, ist der Hass auf die Mitreisende…
RT @TheLawPanda: "Don't throw hands if you're not gonna finish it, Janice." https://t.co/F8r0b01q4X
wellformedness it's just totally consistent with all that. SJWs from the decadent west who don't understand computers as good as we do are preventing us from satisfying our curiosity! you might think we're authoritarians but we couldn't possibly be, we haven't even kissed any cops on the mouth!
Shoutout an die @zeitonline-Paywall, die mir seit einiger Zeit die Arbeit des Martenstein-Ignorierens abnimmt.
SiyandaWrites You might need to see this today: pic.twitter.com/IjgLBwOQjS
Warum kommt eigentlich in JEDEM deutschen Film die Dialogzeile "Sag mal, spinnst du?" vor? Ich kann's nicht mehr hören.
RT @nsaphra: never give me context for this https://t.co/Hp01mu3S6e
RT @there_are_two_: Congratulations to Dr. @SorchaGilroy, who passed her PhD viva today for her thesis on Probabilistic Graph Formalisms fo…
RT @berndulrich: Ich nehme es mit Demut und Heiterkeit, dass mir nach 35 Jahren Kampf gegen den #Klimawandel heute von 35jährigen gesagt wi…
ojahnn [poll] what kind of document layout makes space-hacking easier
online_shawn Last night I went to a hardware store with my dad and a lady was leaving the store with a shovel and my dad yelled UH OH SHOVEL TIME at her
bomelino - du
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- du sag mal
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- ghostest du mich
- nee quatsch
- puh ok
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"When our greatest commodity is attention, one way to conceive of societal payment is for an abuser to simply refrain from calling attention to himself; to give us the time to not think of him at all." nyti.ms/2wuvMMx
Da ich die Datei schon hatte, konnte ich heute in einer Antwort auf eine E-Mail die Fiktion der nicht vergessenen Anlage einfach aufrechterhalten.
RT @annanasskeks: *versteckt sich im Wandschrank vor Mörder*
*versucht leise eine Tüte Chips zu öffnen*
RT @zeitweise: Es droht ein 2. Brexit-Referendum.
Seehofer droht mit Rücktritt.
Es drohen Dieselfahrverbote und Nutellabrote.
Klare Luft u…
RT @Herr_Rau: Stellt sich heraus: Die sagen, die haben das so beigebracht gekriegt. Nicht alles auf einmal, damit die nächsten SuS auch noc…
RT @Herr_Rau: Mich stört im Oberstufenunterricht, wenn ich als (einfache) Frage stelle: "Welche Merkmale" (wobei im ersten Absatz 4 drin si…
RT @MelodyRules_: @Nicole_Cliffe Starting a new high school & didn’t have the uniform yet so Dad wrote a note excusing me. I copied it in m…
"Klickeradoms", die "Geburt der Venus" unter den Lautgemälden
RT @lisa_b_davidson: Linguists, any tweets abt weatherman Jeremy Kappell yet? I suppose he could have intentionally inserted a racist slur,…
RT @medickinson: You can only see this optical illusion if you shake your head (I’m serious) 😂 https://t.co/WhtZ1b0r4t
RT @zeitonline: Vor 20 Jahren lief in den USA die bahnbrechende Fernsehserie "The Sopranos" an. Im Zentrum stand der Antiheld Tony Soprano.…
RT @zirkuspony: sollte ich jemals einen hund haben, wird er OMA heißen und jetzt überlegt euch mal anhand von ein paar beispielsätzen, waru…
RT @berndulrich: Nein, das sind Klischees des 20. Jhrd. Der Staat wird heute durch international agierendes Finanzkapital und die Internetr…
@sarefo YYYY-MM-DD is not exactly controversial, but not as widespread as it should be.
YYYY-MM-DD FTW https://t.co/zptCLgYQGp
RT @kathrinpassig: #wasfehlt: Eine gemeinsame Crowd-Korrekturplattform der Verlage (so ähnlich wie https://t.co/thq3TNNgvD, nur schöner), d…
RT @skyglowberlin: Germans, help me out. I have a bibliography with the names Hänel and Hale. Which comes first? Do you treat all ä's as la…
RT @annanasskeks: "Achja. Sie dürfen heute keine schweren Maschinen mehr bedienen!"
Verdammt, wie soll ich denn jetzt meinen Schaufelradba…
RT @stephanbartosch: Die #NÖGKK hat eine eher eigenwillige Definition von Vielfalt #justNÖthings https://t.co/nTDxhgppU7
RT @yoavgo: BERT totally fails, btw 😛: https://t.co/y3fuj8LcWf
5 of 5 stars to The Book of Why by Judea Pearl https://t.co/kXskQFKLY9
Wilbulm Hesch
rveenewman A 3D printed light projected animation. Proof that there's always new ways to animate everything. #3dprint #animation pic.twitter.com/ULFTf8gIto
RT @mdlhx: Some very nice work! I hope they will try to publish some of this stuff! One very nice outcome of these projects is that UUParse…
Steampunk-Hackerstory, in der man für automatisierte Berechnungen nicht "Compute" braucht, sondern "Uhrwerk". Bsp.: "Um den Code zu knacken, brauchen wir mehr Uhrwerk."; "In Sachen Uhrwerk können wir es nicht mit ihnen aufnehmen, aber wir haben den smarteren Algorithmus."
RT @tiger_food: Gute Gelegenheit, mal wieder zu üben, dass es „aufs“ (und nicht „auf‘s“) und „Schärfste“ (und nicht „schärfste“) heißt. #Di…
@Autorwesen Sehr gern! 🙏
@Autorwesen Gibt's die öffentlich? Wenn ja, wo? Wenn nein, darf ich lesen? :D
@adimit FWIW both are instances of laminar flow.
_starsem The First Call for Papers is now out! Submission deadline - March 6, 2019. Check out the details at: starsem.org/2019/#cfp
#NLProc @NAACLHLT
RT @ZonePhysics: When water flows so smoothly it looks solid. This effect is called Laminar flow https://t.co/2QtUYcQcxb
in vivo - in vitro - in silico - ex cathedra
immer noch bestes katzenvideo
Pigeon outsmarts cat youtu.be/ah2mHjwv7DM via @YouTube
@Grumpfdalm @Autorwesen? :D
RT @Grumpfdalm: Wer malt mir das? https://t.co/cqOnDb3ruC
RT @iamaghostnow: <einsame hütte im wald>
░ [hackt holz]
[wagen fährt vor] [zwielichtige person steigt aus]
░ – was willst du
zp – wir brau…
EnglishGibson Deliberately mistranslated for the amusement* of my wife.
*eye-rolling resignation
MillennialProf_ Semester "icebreaker" Tip:
Ask your students to share the kindest thing any teacher has ever said to them.
It's my favorite way to start a semester -- curating a community bonded by kindness.
RT @jack_kelly: I left Google DeepMind to build a non-profit research lab focused on helping to fix climate change ASAP. Very open and col…
RT @EnglishGibson: Zusammengeschrieben https://t.co/GDA7HnPvHH
RT @nsaphra: Ah, this one is really good! Write better reviews! https://t.co/68V4TXymM7
RT @Sinneswandlerin: Das ist nicht mein Antifaschismus. https://t.co/HZV62RVDV5
RT @toddwords: Currently looking for WordHack presenters for 2019! Calling all poets, programmers, artists, linguists, gamemakers, botmaker…
RT @MatthiasKalle: Nazis raus.
https://t.co/rupESgO7CF
tschfflr Klingons do not procrastinate! It is a tactical delay.
krismicinski someone pointed out that if you read the book "Coders at Work," all the top coders interviewed there use printf-style debugging. Really makes you think about how we could increase productivity: could we have better strong but dead-simple APIs for debugging built into language?
Grumpfdalm This world uses bodies to improve user experience. [accept] [opt out]
RT @ScHuehnerkrisp: Hustet nicht Würfel, https://t.co/IrU688inwI
RT @bmih_bund: Wir werden einen Gesetzesentwurf zum Verbot von Hackerangriffen vorlegen. Dieses Internet darf kein Rechtsfreier Raum sein!…
RT @hllizi: Obstsalat mit Speckwürfeln aus Angst vor Veganismus.
Sequence mapping pic.twitter.com/8uGShqlP5S
RT @_he_art: 『COLD/HOT』
熱いのか冷たいのか教えてくれるシールを作りました。
#アンビグラム #ambigram https://t.co/PQaauso91R
RT @hllizi: If they explain to me how reducing the efficiency of agriculture is going to help feed 8+ billions of people while reducing CO2…
RT @annanasskeks: Beautyprodukte.
Für Typen:
Das hier kann als Shampoo, Zahnpasta, Sonnencreme, Motoröl oder Wandspachtel benutzt werden…
RT @zirkuspony: JETZT WIRD ZURÜCKGETWI hm zu müde
RT @TomNamako: "Airports struggling with manpower issues could also opt to loosen standards for checked baggage based on a theory that peop…
@EnglishGibson It could be said of "Komm schon", though
@EnglishGibson I don't think the same could be said of "Komm, wir..."
RT @EnglishGibson: Komm, wir… [+present tense]
Hey, let’s… [+infinitive without ‘to’]
I know, let’s… [+infinitive without ‘to’]
alter war die letzte folge schlecht, bin geschockt
wellformedness There's nothing linguistically interesting about it either except that, like half the nominees, it's a euphemism.
wellformedness I can honestly say I've never heard the WOTY and think it's not-very-clever take on actual creeping fascism so I'm going to pass. #woty2018
kirbyconrod Conference tip: set aside some time to just sort of sit somewhere visible with your nametag showing and wait for people to come to you! I call it my NPC hour
1) Haha, "Bernd"
2) Vorstellungen zu einem "Airbag fürs Internet" bleiben sehr vage
3) Gurtpflicht seit 1999?? https://t.co/Ypnen4HDyQ
mueslikind Hauptmann Offensichtlich.
MeaningBank For those who could not attend EMNLP: vimeo.com/306143088
bomelino Verstehe nicht warum man Gewichte kaufen kann. Alles andere hat doch auch ein Gewicht und noch ne Extrafunktion (z.B. Hund).
RT @RebekahBaglini: The linguistics/NLP divide reflected in questions. “What’s your task?” vs. “What’s your question?” Cf. engineering vs.…
liekegelderloos Interesting panel discussion at "what linguists should know about #NLProc ". @nlpnoah proposes a linguists + NLP start-up: Natural Language Misunderstanding. A system that misunderstands you just like your mother. #SCiL2019 #LSA2019
RT @skglas: Ich lese https://t.co/BQRsIZGUf3 Abs.2 und frage mich, wann gehackte Informationen als "öffentlich zugänglich" gelten müssen (n…
@adimit Oder auch nur Komoot. Kool.
@adimit cycle.travel/map → in Komoot importieren wirkt für meine Zwecke vielversprechend. Demnächst mal ausprobieren. Danke!
@adimit Ja, kommt vor.
RT @ojahnn: I'm presenting my work on verb alternation identification in English at the #lsa2019 #scil2019 poster session at 10:45-11:45!…
GretchenAMcC But first! A challenge for the #lsa2019 audience: explain something about linguistics to your hypothetical 15 year old nephew, using play-doh
My contribution: pic.twitter.com/Q5vZYMip9Q
GretchenAMcC Here bright and early for the high school linguistics panel at #LSA2019 and it looks like we'll be getting to do some kind of interactive activity! pic.twitter.com/EdR4hL53mO
Google Maps ist ein viel größerer Fan der B8 als ich. 🚲
RT @spinfocl: Ein bisschen lustig ist das schon. #Thread https://t.co/KIqVMPrgzs
On page 38 of 432 of The Book of Why, by Judea Pearl: "Searle's challenge has only one f... https://t.co/DA7asA0ha2
RT @marteimer: Wenn sich betrunkene Flüchtlinge prügeln: Tagelang Dauererregung, "Kriminelle Ausländer raus"-Stimmung, Infragestellung dive…
RT @hllizi: Stattdessen brav das auf den Umschlag gebürgert und zurück in den Kasten: "Falsch zugestellt, Empfängerin ist an dieser Adresse…
RT @bundesamtfvs: Ja hier: Gibt es denn schon irgendwelche Hinweise auf ein politisches Motiv? https://t.co/tGPNbaB4hO
ojahnn How do I get elected into a conference organization committee for the specific task of being in charge of the layout of the room for poster sessions?
We just wanted to measure the outrage https://t.co/KTgwj98GEU
camelCase
PascalCase
snake_case
kebab-case
BRUSHcase?
RT @harvardnlp: "Tensor Considered Harmful" (https://t.co/iueFvrYT6O).
A polemic against numpy / pytorch and a proposal for a named tens…
sjmielke Now sitting in: "Enhancing communication between international instructors and U.S. undergraduate students" (Okim Kang) #LSA2019 #SCiL2019
The problem: studies show that asian TAs are rated lower by US undergrads, even when audio is the same as other video of a Caucasian!
ojahnn Example: Someone complimenting a person by saying "I like the hair", instead of "I like your hair". These effects are rooted in pragmatic competition between the phrases, there is some rationality in the choice of one variant over the other.
ojahnn First talk: Michael Moortgat - Modes of composition. Linguistic expressions are multidimensional (phonology, syntax, semantics, ...) Composition in each of these dimensions behaves in a specific way, and Richard Oehrle's ideas revolve around composition across the dimensions.
rctatman Since I'm always on about "using the best tool for the job" when it comes to data science software & libraries, I've put together a handy flow chart that includes Lots of Opinions about what the best tools are for various jobs. pic.twitter.com/vgoiOu5vQV
nsaphra Linguists all know WALS already so they don't think of it, and it shows up rarely enough in NLP papers that a lot of ML-background people aren't aware of it. But if you are interested in data on how languages differ, it really is essential. wals.info/languoid
RT @kuebra: Betreff: Rass. Angriffe in Essen/Bottrop
Liebe Redaktionen,
wenn ihr 2019 noch immer nicht um die Macht v Sprache wisst ("Frem…
marga_owski wenn du denkst du kennst schon alle Friseurwortspiele und dann doch nicht pic.twitter.com/Tgpet4dLiV
letzte staffel tatortreiniger bingen
RT @SharkDancing: Cyclists with Ipods (headphones) hear the same as motorists in cars with the windows up listening to nothing. #Bikesareno…
classiclib3ral The two funniest ways of starting a tweet I have ever seen pic.twitter.com/ilOlybGNp7
"[Meine Mutter] sagte mir, dass das nicht richtig sei. Niemand sei verpflichtet, einen anderen Menschen zu lieben. Wenn du also mehr Liebe brauchst, als ich dir gebe, dann musst du mich dazu verführen!" https://t.co/mHUmO2UQEi
Wort des Tages: weitwinkelobjektiv https://t.co/X15n6cWsxA
RT @hllizi: Bund und Reich https://t.co/RTnpcS1za8
AnimaAnandkumar 3) He has pledged to change his behavior and took feedback without fighting back. #meToo is not a witchhunt. It is a dialogue to let men know that their behavior is having a huge negative impact. It is about changing learnt social conditioning of patriarchy.
in Coolitäten geraten
RT @zirkuspony: geisteszustand: beim friseur angerufen und "hallo ich brauch haare ab" gesagt
RT @Evertype: It’s official. @babelstone and @evertype have dibs on proposing #Voynich for encoding in #Unicode Hat tip to @zenodotus and @…
RadishHarmers The careful doctor must distinguish "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" from "Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo". The latter string of complete gibberish can be a patient's first sign of stroke.
RT @zeitonline: Ein Knacks an der Psyche ist manchmal nicht viel anders als ein verstauchter Knöchel, schreibt @JaSimmank. Warum es helfen…
Leider doch nicht nur mit Audio: Bei meinem T450s muss ich gerade schon zum dritten Mal die Garantie in Anspruch nehmen wegen Displayfehlern (einzelnen hellen, verschwommenen Flecken).
@vagina_museum Awesome! Is there a reason you gave the title in Dutch? :D
RT @GretchenAMcC: My latest Wired column:
Both kids and adults like faces, but kids don't use faces that convey a note of irony, such as…
texttheater Herpfklotzen
"Katharsis. Abspann." https://t.co/jYjMHOtcBs
RT @random_walker: Smart contracts are really cool, but they're neither smart nor contracts. https://t.co/Jdulrjk4iQ
The fact that they are…
RT @random_walker: Another area where blockchain projects have faltered is in how they govern themselves. Decentralized doesn’t mean struct…
RT @random_walker: Openness and decentralization matter to _developers_. To succeed, decentralized platforms must attract developers and fo…
RT @random_walker: Open platforms can’t win by directly appealing to users on philosophical grounds, or even cost (see Linux on the desktop…
RT @random_walker: There’s a widespread belief in the blockchain world that centralization results from government regulation and/or monopo…
tallinzen One of my favorite things about Twitter is how people started signaling that a tweet is the first one in a thread after it became unfashionable to just say "(thread)". Let me explain.